Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish: [leoˈnaɾðo ˈtores keˈβeðo]; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, and inventor...
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and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo drew up designs of a ‘docking station’ and made alterations to airship designs. In 1910, Torres Quevedo proposed the...
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la Academia de Ciencias Exacta, Revista 12, pp.391-418, 1914. Torres Quevedo, Leonardo. Automática: Complemento de la Teoría de las Máquinas, (pdf), pp...
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inventor español". La Época. 1902. Francisco A. González Redondo.Leonardo Torres Quevedo, 1902-1908. The Foundations for 100 years of Airship designs In...
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axeðɾeˈθista], English: The Chess Player) is an automaton built in 1912 by Leonardo Torres Quevedo in Madrid, one of the first autonomous machines capable of playing...
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mechanical differential analyzers. In the 1890s, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo began to develop a series of advanced analog machines that could...
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Niagara Whirlpool. The system was designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo and has been upgraded several times since 1916 (in 1961, 1967 and...
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pioneering of remote control, by engineer and computer pioneer Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1852–1936) Electronic book by teacher, writer and inventor Ángela...
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Telekino of Torres-Quevedo,(pdf) vol. 96, No. 1, January 2008, Proceedings of the IEEE. "1902 – Telekine (Telekino) – Leonardo Torres Quevedo (Spanish)"...
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beat the fastest sloop's time by over five minutes. In 1916, Leonardo Torres Quevedo patented a new kind of ship, a multihull steel vessel named Binave...
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inventors, Leonardo Torres Quevedo and Vannevar Bush, also did follow on research based on Babbage's work. In his Essays on Automatics (1914), Torres designed...
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runs down at inopportune moments. In 1903, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo introduced a radio based control system called the "Telekino" at...
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for each intermediate calculation. In 1914, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo published Essays on Automatics, where he designed a special-purpose...
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he hoped to sell to the US Navy. In 1903, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrated a radio control system called "Telekino" at the Paris...
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trans-Atlantic flights in 1910 and 1912. In 1902 the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo published details of an innovative airship design in Spain and...
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Terradas i Illa (1883–1950), mathematician, physicist and engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1852–1936), engineer and computer scientist, pioneer of automated...
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Quevedo, 16th-century Spanish Franciscan bishop and missionary Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Spanish engineer and mathematician, would be called "Torres"...
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in about six seconds. In his work Essays on Automatics (1914) Leonardo Torres Quevedo, inspired by Babbage, designed a theoretical electromechanical...
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Chandra Bose, Nitobe Inazo, Marie Curie, Gonzague de Reynold, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, and Robert A. Millikan among its members. The committee was the...
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Georgie Torres, Puerto Rican basketball player Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player Héctor Torres, Mexican baseball player Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Spanish...
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United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. 1906 – Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an...
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rotor and the autogyro, precursor of the helicopter. In 1907, Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1852–1936) started up the world's first aerial lift for passengers...
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mechanical analytical engines in history. In 1914, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo published his Essays on Automatics, and designed, inspired by Babbage...
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21 – George Callaghan, British admiral (d. 1920) December 28 – Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Spanish engineer, one of pioneers of computing and the radio control...
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calculating machines" including those of Percy Ludgate (1909), Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1914), Maurice d'Ocagne (1922), Louis Couffignal (1933), Vannevar...
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Whirlpool Aero Car, built in 1916 from a design by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo, is a cable car that takes passengers over the Niagara Whirlpool...
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Leibniz, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Charles Babbage, Percy Ludgate, Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Vannevar Bush, and others. Ada Lovelace speculated that Babbage's...
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being captured by the Union Navy. In 1913 the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo designed a new type of boat called "Camp-Vessel", to transport...
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Torres Quevedo, Leonardo (19 November 1914). "Automática: Complemento de la Teoría de las Máquinas" (PDF). Revista de Obras Públicas: 575–583. Torres...
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Austrian lines and the launching ship Vulcano. The Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo introduced a radio-based control-system called the Telekino at...
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